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DC, LSG to begin new season with new hope
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: The IPL has always had players facing their former teams, but this season, there's an added sort of spice to these contests.
KL Rahul, former Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captain, will play for Delhi Capitals (DC), while Rishabh Pant faces his old franchise DC after becoming IPL's costliest auction signing for LSG. What's more, they start their season against each other. In Visakhapatnam, on Monday evening.
The last images from Rahul's time with LSG were of what looked like an animated discussion with team owner Sanjiv Goenka. It came after the team's exit from IPL 2024. Afterwards, Goenka expressed a desire to have "players with a mindset to win". Rahul wanted to feel "loved and cared for".
Rahul joined the team on match eve in Visakhapatnam, but may or may not be available for the game for personal reasons. If he can't be around, DC have a replacement in Karun Nair, who is coming off a prolific domestic white-ball season. Jake Fraser-McGurk, a star in IPL 2024, has endured a lean run in T20s since - he tallied just 188 runs in ten BBL innings for Melbourne Renegades, with 95 of them in one innings.
Delhi Capitals (probable): 1 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Abishek Porel, 4 KL Rahul (wk), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Axar Patel (capt), 7 Ashutosh Sharma, 8 Sameer Rizvi/Mohit Sharma, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mitchell Starc, 11 T Natarajan, 12 Mukesh Kumar
LSG have brought on board Shardul Thakur as injury replacement for Mohsin, but there are other big gaps: Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan and Akash Deep - the heart of their Indian fast-bowling core - are all recovering from injuries.
Lucknow Super Giants (probable): 1 Yuvraj Chaudhary, 2 Mitchell Marsh, 3 Rishabh Pant (capt, wk), 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Ayush Badoni, 6 David Miller, 7 Abdul Samad, 8 Shahbaz Ahmed, 9 Rajvardhan Hangargekar, 10 Ravi Bishnoi, 11 Shamar Joseph, 12 Prince Yadav
